Cumberland still has plenty of Largemouth, although i'm sure the water level changes haven't helped them..The fish have evolved because of the tremendous amount of both fishing and pleasure boating pressure and the new types of shad in the lake now.
Like Laurel River Lake deep clear water resivoirs are hard to fish anyway.
When you have bait fish that are suspended 30 feet deep in 100 ft of water it makes it tuff to catch the fish that eat them..
I can tell a diffence in all the game fish i fish for at Cumberland over the last 15 years.....INCLUDING the stripers...
I do think , however, that the smallmouth and stripers have done a beter job adjusting to the introduction of the alwife ( i prob spelled that wrong) shad.
We as fisherman are gonna have to do a better job of adjusting as well.